6o6 Book IV. Part+ L1oking unto feft~~. Chap.z.Selt.) ~ -·------------------~------------------------------ on amongll divines Chryfoflome is of minde, that he proCbri.I Cor.(cr. nounc(d n6' forme at all, but only delivered {efm unto them to 1llt.lle Elccmof be crucified, Mark. 1 5. I 5. J oh I 9· 16. Others cannot yield to this, for to what end (fay they) fhould he then fit down ssp&n the jndgement flat? and yet amongft themfelves th~y cannot agree on a forme; Anfe!me gives it thos, . I adjudge refu<~ of N a:>:.areth Au[eJ.dc p;J, to rhat ignominiom and fhamefu! deqth of the croj]e. Vineentim thus, I t·ondemne {e[m, fedttcing the ptople, bla[pheming God, 11nd Pillc'depJfJ. fayi"gthathew.uChrifttheKinKofthe{ews, to befajfened tathe crof[e, and there to hang till he dye. Many other formes are brought in by others, but that of Lukf is I am fure moft authentike, And Pilategttve {entence, that it fhould be M they required: Lub3·%f,lS· and then he delivered fj-ejm-to their will. Here's a fentence indeed, a delivery ofJefus not to his own, but to his enemies liberty; to the boundle!fe bonds, and all the poffible tortures of their own wills, and willies. 0 unjuft fentence ! Give me not over to the will Pfa!. :;o.u. ofmy adver{aries, cryes David,; the wil~..of malice is an endleffe wheele, it cares not how long it fpins out paine-, and ' therefore they cryed crucifie him, crucifte him, let him be cmcified. :Amen, (fayes Pilate) do what you pleafe, crucifie him, and crucijie him M often as)ou will, it fhall be as you require, Lo now I deliver him to yvur own rrill. · We cannot fhake this tree without fome fruit; from this fight of Chrift, and fentence of Pilau, . we may !carne .fome good.---- · Vfe I. From this fight ofChri£1:, as he was prcfented by p,J/ite to the people, we may leame remorfe: nor :lny of us who have crucified Cbrift by our fin>, but we arc called on at this time, to behold the man; fuppofe we faw l1im with our bodily eyes; fuppofe we had the fame view of Chrif'c as the Jewes had, where he was thus prefented ; fuppole we faw himi'n the very midfl: of us wearing the crown ofthornes, and the purple :·obe, and the cane orreede held in his right hand; fuppofe we heard the voyce of Pilt! te fpeaking ro us, as he did to the Jewcs,be.0dd the man ; fup- '· r, pofe we faw the purple robe lifted up, that we might fee all under, bow his body was torne; and that fome voyce from heaven fhould come ro us, fa~ing' , _this fame is he w~ortJJ().ha_ve buffmrd, fcourged, .:rewntd, crtlcijieJ by your Ji>il : wete rrot thts-enough to Aft 1 37• prick us in our hearts, nnd to make us cry, men 1!'/fd!n-cthrcn what [ball
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